Tales From The Job: My Armoured Guard Experience

A number of years ago I landed a job with an armoured car company as a guard and driver. The job itself was a combination of logistics (transportation) and security, which seemed to be perfectly suited to the type of work experience I had at the time. I maintained a class one commercial drivers license for years, and had driven all sizes and varieties of trucks. I also had a security services license for quite a while and worked part time doing things like “access control” at special events, bar security, retail security, etc… There was even a period in which I worked nights/evenings as a doorman at an office building on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside….